How do I install a non-outdated D compiler on Linux? (not in userspace-container)

[bachmeier]

On Saturday, 8 June 2024 at 00:21:59 UTC, solidstate1991 wrote:
> On Friday, 7 June 2024 at 23:19:37 UTC, solidstate1991 wrote:
>> I **need** to link against various system libraries, and 
>> otherwise some tools won't be able to access the D compiler 
>> unless I start them from a command line after an 
>> initialization script.
>>
>> I'm using Linux Mint, it's much more stable than Ubuntu (which 
>> started to completely collapse on me for just looking the 
>> wrong way at it), but unfortunately some packages are 
>> outdated, especially the D compilers.
>
> Okay, I installed the "curl" versions, how do I edit the 
> activating shell scripts of DMD and LDC that they'd work as if 
> they were installed "normally"? I don't have the time, not the 
> capacity to test my libraries with multiple different compiler 
> versions, and document any oddities between them (and I almost 
> never need it thanks to D).

For Mint, I'd use the .deb and let it handle that stuff. For LDC, 
I have a bash alias for ldmd2 that points to the ldmd2 binary. Of 
course there are multiple ways to handle this, but I don't 
understand the point of the install script, since it leaves you 
without a working installation.